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Cross-National Estimates of the Intergenerational Mobility in Earnings

Lillard, Dean R. - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 51-58

This paper examines the similarity in the association between earnings of sons and fathers in Germany and the United States. It relaxes the log-linear functional form imposed in most studies of the intergenerational earnings association. Theory implies the relationship between earnings of...

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Rural childhoods in Egypt's desert lands

Adriansen, Hanne Kristine - 2007

children a good start in life. The desert villages are associated with a type of ‘rural idyll’. The process of settling in the … desert impacts upon the children’s possible pathways to adulthood and their identities and social relationships. Not only do … the children grow up in a different physical context, they are also exposed to new norms, values and behaviour that …

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Eliminating child marriage in Ethiopia: Emerging regularities and practical norms

Erda, Fana Gebresenbet - 2021

How can we explain the large gap between national legal and policy commitments to reduce and eliminate gender-based violence (GBV) and the reality and practice of GBV in Ethiopia? Hitherto explanations mainly centre on the conflict between and social and official norms, and the stubbornness of...

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Educational Opportunities of Children in Poverty

Schöb, Anke - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 172-179

In this paper, I use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) to investigate whether and how a German youth' s choice of secondary school (Hauptschule, Realschule, Gymnasium) varies with the timing and duration of poverty experienced in childhood. To investigate what role the timing of...

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